ilvio and Maria Rauth were Italian immigrants who arrived in the United States in 1916, first settling in Arizona. They brought with them their daughter, Mary, who was born in Tyrol, Switzerland in 1900. Attracted to the new land of Alaska, they moved to Juneau in 1917. Silvio and Maria operated the Savoy Restaurant in Juneau doing the cooking and managing, while Mary worked as the waitress.

In 1918, Mary Rauth met a hardrock miner named Sam Figurelli, and they were married in 1919. Their first child was born in Juneau in 1920. After hearing about the new town of Anchorage and the completion of the Alaska Railroad, the Rauth and Figurelli families moved to Anchorage in 1921. Soon after their arrival in Anchorage, Sam and Mary had a set of twins, one of whom died at birth. One month after the birth of their son, Richard Victor, in 1924, Sam was killed in a cave-in while working for the city of Anchorage in the installation of water lines. He is buried at the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.

In 1925 Mary married again, to Tony Pastro, a coal miner who was working at the Premier Mine in the Matanuska Valley. Born in Treviso, Italy in 1885, he had come to Alaska in 1915. He did contract work for the Alaskan Engineering Commission during the construction days of the Alaska Railroad.

In 1930 Tony and his father-in-law, Silvio Rauth, purchased the Nevada Hotel and Café located near the corner of 4th Avenue and B Street. In 1933 Silvio sold his interest in the hotel to Tony’s brother, George Pastro, and Silvio retired to Elsinore, California. In 1937 Tony and Mary Pastro built the Lido Hotel and Café on the corner lot next to the Nevada Hotel, which was torn down and replaced with a bowling alley.

The Lido Café and Hotel building was two stories, with the café on the main floor and twenty rooms upstairs. In the basement were a cocktail lounge and the Aleutian Gardens nightclub. During World War II, Keith Capper, a newly arrived entrepreneur, leased the bowling alleys and the Aleutian Gardens cocktail lounge. During the war years the entire building was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt. In 1953 Mary and Tony retired and sold the Lido complex to an investor. It was again destroyed by the l964 earthquake. At the time of the quake, Bagoy’s Flowers had opened their new shop in the space previously occupied by the Lido Café, and it was also destroyed by the quake.

Mary Rauth and Sam Figurelli had three children who took the last name of their stepfather, Tony Pastro. Son Rudy, whose twin died at birth, did not marry. Son Richard Pastro, born in 1924, married Lois and they had two children, James R. and Anthony J. Son Eugene and spouse, Emily, had seven children, including Rosemarie Pastro de Farias, Mary Anne Pastro Gee, Patricia Louise Pastro Sullivan, Theresa Catherine Pastro Mar and David Anthony Pastro. Daughter Margaret Mary Pastro became a Catholic nun in Oregon and son Vincent Jerome Pastro became a Catholic priest in Washington. Tony Pastro died in 1961 in California. Mary Pastro died in 1994. Both are buried in Seattle, Washington.